Bavarian State Opera

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Template other The Bavarian State Opera (Template:Langx) is a German opera company based in Munich. Its main venue is the Nationaltheater München, and its orchestra the Bavarian State Orchestra.

History

File:Jahreskonzert der Freunde des Nationaltheaters im Nationaltheater München.jpg

Nationaltheater München, interior

The parent ensemble of the company was founded in 1653, under Electress consort Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, when Giovanni Battista Maccioni's L'arpa festante was performed in the court theatre. In 1753, the Residence Theatre (Cuvilliés Theatre) was opened as a major stage. While opera performances were also held in the Prinzregententheater (completed in 1901), the company's home base is the Nationaltheater München on Max-Joseph-Platz.

In 1875, the Munich Opera Festival took place for the first time. Sir Peter Jonas became the general manager in 1993, the first British general manager of any major German-speaking opera house. In 2008, Nikolaus Bachler became Intendant (general manager) of the opera company, and Kirill Petrenko became Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) in 2013. In 2014, the Bavarian State Opera received the Opernhaus des Jahres (opera house of the year) award from Opernwelt magazine. In October 2015, the company announced the extensions of the contracts of Bachler and of Petrenko through August 2021. Both Bachler and Petrenko stood down from their respective posts at the close of the 2020–2021 season.

In March 2018, the company announced the appointments of Template:Ill as its next general manager, and of Vladimir Jurowski as its next GMD, both effective with the 2021–2022 season. In June 2024, the company announced the extension of Dorny's contract as Intendant through 2031, and of Jurowski's contract as GMD through the close of the 2027–2028 season, at which time Jurowski is expected to stand down as GMD.

The company received the "Opera Company of the Year" award at the 2018 and 2023 International Opera Awards.

Intendant

• Johann Nepomuk von Poißl (1824–1848)
• Template:Ill (1848–1851)
• Franz von Dingelstedt (1851–1858)
• Template:Ill (1868–1893)
• Ernst von Possart (1895–1906)
• Albert von Speidel (1907–1912)
• Clemens von Franckenstein (1912–1918)
• Template:Ill (1918–1924)
• Clemens von Franckenstein (1924–1934)
• Hans Knappertsbusch (1934–1935)
• Oskar Walleck (1935–1937)
• Clemens Krauss (1937–1940)
• Template:Ill (1945–1952)
• Template:Ill (1952–1967)
• Günther Rennert (1967–1976)
• August Everding (1977–1982)
• Wolfgang Sawallisch (1982–1993)
• Peter Jonas (1993–2006)
• Kent Nagano (2006–2008)
• Nikolaus Bachler (2008–2021)
• Template:Ill (2021–present)

Generalmusikdirektor

• Franz Lachner (1836–1867)
• Hans von Bülow (1864–1869)
• Franz Wüllner (1870–1877)
• Hermann Levi (1872–1896)
• Richard Strauss (1894–1896)
• Max Erdmannsdörfer (1896–1898)
• Bernhard Stavenhagen (1898–1902)
• Hermann Zumpe (1901–1903)
• Felix Mottl (1904–1911)
• Bruno Walter (1913–1922)
• Hans Knappertsbusch (1922–1935)
• Clemens Krauss (1937–1944)
• Hans Knappertsbusch (1945)
• Georg Solti (1946–1952)
• Rudolf Kempe (1952–1954)
• Ferenc Fricsay (1956–1958)
• Joseph Keilberth (1959–1968)
• Wolfgang Sawallisch (1971–1992)
• Peter Schneider (interim, 1992–1998)
• Zubin Mehta (1998–2006)
• Kent Nagano (2006–2013)
• Kirill Petrenko (2013–2021)
• Vladimir Jurowski (2021–present)

World premieres

Date	Opera	Composer	Libretto	Location
Template:Dts	Catone in Utica	Ferrandini	Metastasio	Residence Theatre
Template:Dts	La finta giardiniera	Mozart	(?)	Salvator Theatre
Template:Dts	Idomeneo	Mozart		Residence Theatre
Template:Dts	Semiramide	Salieri	Metastasio	Residence Theatre
Template:Dts	Iphigenie in Aulis			Residence Theatre
Template:Dts	Abu Hassan	Weber		Residence Theatre
Template:Dts	Jephtas Gelübde	Meyerbeer		Residence Theatre
Template:Dts	Tristan und Isolde	Wagner	Wagner	National Theatre
Template:Dts	Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg	Wagner	Wagner	National Theatre
Template:Dts	Das Rheingold	Wagner	Wagner	National Theatre
Template:Dts	Die Walküre	Wagner	Wagner	National Theatre
Template:Dts	Die Feen	Wagner	Wagner	National Theatre
Template:Dts	Königskinder (Melodrama)	Humperdinck		National Theatre
Template:Dts	Sarema		, Arnold Schoenberg	National Theatre
Template:Dts	Der Bärenhäuter			National Theatre
Template:Dts	Le donne curiose	Wolf-Ferrari	(German by Hermann Teibler)	Residence Theatre
Template:Dts	I quatro rusteghi	Wolf-Ferrari	(German by Hermann Teibler)	National Theatre
Template:Dts	Das Christ-Elflein		Pfitzner and Ilse von Stach	National Theatre
Template:Dts	Il segreto di Susanna	Wolf-Ferrari	(German by Max Kalbeck)	National Theatre
Template:Dts	Der Ring des Polykrates / Violanta	Korngold	and Julius Korngold / Hans Müller-Einigen	National Theatre
Template:Dts	Palestrina		Pfitzner	Prinzregententheater
Template:Dts	Die Vögel		Braunfels (play by Aristophanes)	National Theatre
Template:Dts	Friedenstag		and Stefan Zweig	National Theatre
Template:Dts	Der Mond		Orff	National Theatre
Template:Dts	Capriccio		Strauss and Clemens Krauss	National Theatre
Template:Dts	Die Harmonie der Welt		Hindemith	Prinzregententheater
Template:Dts	Lear			National Theatre
Template:Dts	Ubu Rex	Penderecki	Penderecki and Jerzy Jarocki (play by Alfred Jarry)	National Theatre
Template:Dts	Das Gesicht im Spiegel			Cuvilliés Theatre
Template:Dts	Alice in Wonderland			National Theatre
Template:Dts	Die Tragödie des Teufels			National Theatre
Template:Dts	Babylon			National Theatre

Recordings

Bavarian State Opera has issued numerous recordings under record labels such as Deutsche Grammophon. In May 2021, it launched its own recording label, Bayerische Staatsoper Recordings (BSOrec).

Among the company's noted recordings are the 1989 video recording of Wagners' Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, which won Best Video in the 1993 Gramophone Classical Music Awards. The 1973 recording of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, conducted by Carlos Kleiber and released in 2008, was highly acclaimed and selected as Editor's Choice in the April 2009 issue of Gramophone Magazine.

At the International Opera Awards, the Bayerische Staatsoper won the 2018 the Opera Company Award. Their recording of Handel's Agrippina, directed by Barrie Kosky from the Royal Opera House, has been shortlisted for the 2018 Opera Awards.

In 1977, a recording by the Bavarian State Opera was selected by NASA to be included on the Voyager Golden Record, a gold-plated copper record that was sent into space on the Voyager space craft. The record contained sounds and images which had been selected as examples of the diversity of life and culture on Earth. In the recording, soprano Edda Moser sings "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" from Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute, conducted by Sawallisch.

External links

• Bayerisches Staatsorchester history Template:Webarchive
• Bayerisches Staatsorchester at the Bach Cantatas Website